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Amsterdams pot shops fighting for right to party
Category: News | Posted on Mon, April, 23rd 2012 by THCFinder
AMSTERDAM — Dutch coffee shop owners went to court last week in a last ditch bid to block a government plan to stop foreigners from buying marijuana in the Netherlands.
 
Lawyers representing the coffee shops oppose what would be the most significant change in decades to the country’s famed soft drug tolerance: turning marijuana cafes into “members only” clubs open solely to Dutch residents.
 
Members would only be able to get into the coffee shops by registering for a “weed pass,” and the shops would only be allowed a maximum of 2,000 members.
 
The move comes into force in the south of the country May 1 and is scheduled to roll out nationwide on Jan. 1, 2013.
 
Whether it will be enforced in Amsterdam, whose coffee shops are a major tourist draw card, remains to be seen.
 
The city has strongly opposed the pass idea and Mayor Eberhard van der Laan says he wants to negotiate a workable compromise with the country’s Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten.
 
Lawyers for the cafe owners told a judge at The Hague District Court that the move — aimed at reining in problems caused by foreign “drug tourists” who buy marijuana in the Netherlands and resell it in neighboring countries — is “clearly discriminatory.”
 
Lawyer Ilonka Kamans argued that Dutch drug policy gives citizens “the fundamental right to the stimulant of their choosing” and should not deprive visiting foreigners of the same right.
 
Government lawyer Eric Daalder defended the measures.
 
“Fighting criminality and drug tourism is a reasonable justification” for the crackdown, Daalder told the court.
 
He said the government wants to bring coffee shops back to what they were originally intended to be: “small local stores selling to local people.”
 
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Loving the Trichomes
Category: Nugs | Posted on Mon, April, 23rd 2012 by THCFinder

 

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Officer Pleads Guilty To Selling Seized Marijuana
Category: News | Posted on Mon, April, 23rd 2012 by THCFinder
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) -  St. Louis, MO – A former St. Louis City police Sergeant has pleaded guilty to selling marijuana seized for evidence.  Larry J. Davis, 46, resigned after pleading guilty to selling around 154 lbs of marijuana that was taken into evidence.
 
Officer Davis was investigating gang activity at package delivery branch facilities in St. Louis.  According to police Officer Davis seized several packages suspected of containing marijuana.  But, instead of taking them to evidence he took them to his home or his brother’s home.
 
Linus Davis, is the officer’s brother who lives in St. Louis county.  Police say that Linus opened the packages  and sold the marijuana.
 
Their cars and cash has been seized as part of a search warrant issues for Larry Davis’ residence.
 
Larry pled guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and one felony count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana.  Sentencing has been set for July 26, 2012. Linus R. Davis pled guilty to the same charges.  He is scheduled for sentencing on June 7, 2012.
 
Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
 
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Enjoy Weed
Category: Tokers | Posted on Mon, April, 23rd 2012 by THCFinder

 

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Pot a problem in college football? Depends which school you ask
Category: Culture | Posted on Mon, April, 23rd 2012 by THCFinder
Not too long ago, I was having coffee with the athletics director at a BCS school and we began talking about some of his biggest challenges. That's when he said:
 
"The marijuana situation is the worst I've ever seen it."
 
If you read only the headlines, it's pretty clear that football players testing positive for marijuana or getting busted for possession is not rare. Georgia returns 10 of 11 starters from the No. 5 defense in the nation. But at least two of those starters -- defensive backs Branden Smith and Bacarri Rambo -- are expected to miss at least one game this season due to marijuana issues.
 
ESPN.com recently spoke to 19 people who either played at Oregon or had some affiliation with the school or the football program. Based on those interviews, the story concluded that between 40-60 percent of Oregon players in recent years have used marijuana. School officials, including coach Chip Kelly, deny that marijuana use is that widespread at Oregon.
 
"If we had that many kids doing it, we wouldn't be 34-6," said Kelly, citing Oregon's record in his three years as head coach.
 
Four TCU football players were caught in a campus-wide drug bust that netted 17 arrests last February.
 
The list could go on and on, but two questions must be asked here:
 
How big of a problem is marijuana use in college football?
 
Or it is really a problem at all? If a lot of football players are using marijuana, does anybody outside of the adults who work at the school really care?
 
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Smoke Buddy
Category: Tokers | Posted on Mon, April, 23rd 2012 by THCFinder

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